Eat, sleep, write

I'm so tired now. Only slept for about three hours during the forenoon today. Was awake during the whole of last night and been awake all of today. But I'm restless, hungry, far from sleepy and just wanna write. Only things I've eaten today is one portion of yoghurt and a simple sandwich. I'm starving again, but not for the reasons you think. I don't do it as a means to lose weight, but because I don't care. Hardly a better reason, I know. If there are ever any good reasons to starve.

Also, it saves a lot of money. Usually I would eat for about 3.000 kr. a month, but I'm gonna take it down to a third of that, is my plan. I'm so poor this month, only have 3.000 to live on and that's like nothing with my smoking and drinking habits. Even if I starve, I will probably not make it through without my family's aid. Why not accept that aid then? Of course I will, if it comes to that, it's just that I don't like it at all. Trying to be independent here...

I've written so incredibly much these last two weeks, it's insane. Around ten pages a day has lead me to the whopping 108 thousand words. That's way too much for a novel and I have so much left to write... Here's to hope I'll be the next J.K. Rowling or something... It's hard to get a publisher to accept a book containing more than 109 thousand words, I just read somewhere. Mine will probably land at around 150 thousand words when I'm done with it, but that's just the first draft. We'll see if I'll try to cut it down as soon I'm done or if I'd discuss it with a publisher first. You never know, you know.

I never thought I would write this much. Ever. 157 pages in six OpenOffice documents. 50 chapters so far. I'm already trying to short it down a little as I continue writing. Don't try to fill out chapters with useless stuff "just because" but rather hurrying up the story and only write what is necessary for it. Still keeping it realistic and my own language, all that stuff. But no more characters pacing around and talking to themselves just to fill out a whole chapter. Rather merging chapters together if possible.

I've now introduced all the characters and basically just tying up the knots in the ending. A few more events will take place, but it's at the very ending and things are very exciting now. It's thrilling, heartbreaking, upsetting and amazing to write this part of the story. I've been looking forward to it for so long now... it's like I'm gasping cause I can't believe how far I've gotten. I'm really gonna finish it. I know that now, I am really going to finish my novel that I've been working on for over two years.